'The Thing' Prequel Character Details Exposed

Just the other day Mike Bracken relayed to us that The Thing Prequel was set to film in March, but the details beyond who was directing (Matthijs Van Heijningen) and who was writing (Eric Heisserer based on ideas from Ronald D. Moore) were still a little fuzzy. Well now Bloody-Disgusting has gotten their hands on the official character descriptions for the major players and from it we can surmise perhaps the most telling bit of info about this project so far: Universal is going to try their darnedest to ignore the fact that the Norwegian base camp should be full of, well, Norwegians.

The descriptions BD got a hold of are full of serious spoilers, so I've culled the disappointing, but spoiler-free basics below.